Data Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Development over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 824 782 952
Rank change year-on-year -42 +170 -196
Permanent jobs citing Data Development 64 214 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 58 103 140
10th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £40,300
25th Percentile £45,750 £51,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -11.97% -5.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,516 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,125 £79,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Development.

Salary trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Development over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Development within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -36 53 £60,000 -2.04% 19
Work from Home -27 34 £55,000 -15.38% 14
London +115 31 £65,000 -0.53% 6
UK excluding London -136 26 £60,000 +4.35% 15
North of England +10 8 £41,500 -36.15% 2
Yorkshire +67 6 £41,500 -40.71% 1
South East -13 6 £52,914 -18.59% 3
West Midlands -13 5 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Midlands -29 5 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Scotland -73 4 £80,000 +23.55% 1
South West -28 3 £65,000 - 3
North West -13 1 £48,000 -7.69% 1
North East - 1 £40,000 -

Data Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (17.19%) IIS
2 8 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 14 (21.88%) Azure
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 6 (9.38%) GCP
5 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.81%) IaaS
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) dbt
8 1 (1.56%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 5 (7.81%) DHCP
2 5 (7.81%) DNS
2 5 (7.81%) LAN
2 5 (7.81%) SD-WAN
2 5 (7.81%) WAN
2 5 (7.81%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (25.00%) Power BI
2 16 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (17.19%) Relational Database
3 11 (17.19%) SQL Server
4 8 (12.50%) Metadata
5 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.13%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.56%) GIS
8 1 (1.56%) Parquet
8 1 (1.56%) Tableau
8 1 (1.56%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.69%) JUnit
1 3 (4.69%) Mockito
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (37.50%) Finance
3 19 (29.69%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.19%) Marketing
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Developer
2 12 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Database Developer
4 10 (15.63%) Analyst
5 8 (12.50%) Data Analyst
6 7 (10.94%) Actuarial Analyst
6 7 (10.94%) Lead
7 6 (9.38%) Senior
8 5 (7.81%) Technical Leader
9 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (6.25%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (6.25%) Technical Manager
10 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 2 (3.13%) GCP Data Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) .NET
1 12 (18.75%) ASP.NET
2 9 (14.06%) AngularJS
2 9 (14.06%) Kafka
2 9 (14.06%) React
2 9 (14.06%) Spring
2 9 (14.06%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.38%) Anaconda
3 6 (9.38%) Flask
3 6 (9.38%) Pandas
3 6 (9.38%) Plotly
3 6 (9.38%) REST
3 6 (9.38%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.56%) JSON
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.06%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (7.81%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
1 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) ETL
2 25 (39.06%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (31.25%) Analytics
4 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
6 12 (18.75%) Business Analysis
6 12 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 12 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 12 (18.75%) Data Analytics
6 12 (18.75%) Data Engineering
6 12 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 11 (17.19%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (17.19%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (17.19%) Email Marketing
7 11 (17.19%) Information Security
7 11 (17.19%) Open Source
7 11 (17.19%) Project Management
7 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
8 10 (15.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) SQL
2 19 (29.69%) Python
3 11 (17.19%) PowerShell
3 11 (17.19%) T-SQL
4 9 (14.06%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 11 (17.19%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) ISEB
3 1 (1.56%) MCSE
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (23.44%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Alteryx
3 5 (7.81%) Informatica
3 5 (7.81%) Meraki
3 5 (7.81%) VMware
4 1 (1.56%) Databricks
4 1 (1.56%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.56%) Remedy
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.56%) SnapLogic
4 1 (1.56%) TIBCO